Council voices frustrations over stay-at home measures

AIRWAY HEIGHTS – Frustration with the economic impacts of Washington’s statewide shutdown of most businesses due to COVID-19 boiled to the surface during the City Council’s meeting Monday night, April 20, with at least one member asking if there was anything the city could do on its own to reopen some businesses.

During council reports, Mayor Kevin Richey relayed details to members of a phone call he and other area mayors, including Cheney’s Chris Grover and Spokane’s Nadine Woodward, had last week with Gov. Jay Inslee on impacts being felt by measures to slow the spread of the disease. Richey...

 

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